Benjamin Mako Hill

Release critical, hein? We'll have to find someone to do that image, then :-) - Marcos Marado from Android

"A couple months ago, I suggested to my friend Andrés Monroy-Hernández a very similar project: a literature review on academic work on remixing and remixing communities constructed entirely of text lifted from existing research. After some searching around, Andrés pointed out that Lethem had essentially beaten us to the punch and linked me to his article. Only after I visited the link... more... - marcell mars

This might be worth watching http://events.ccc.de/camp... - Phillip Bailey

Here: ftp://ftp.ccc.de/events/camp2011/video/cccamp11-4459-transition_telecom-en.mp4 - Phillip Bailey

"Here’s a provocative talk by Michael Heller about the problems of private ownership." - Benjamin Mako Hill

Teele in flames! - Benjamin Mako Hill

The husband of Susan Silbey, my methods instructor and a brilliant mentor, passed away after a long battle with cancer. - Benjamin Mako Hill

"These auctions may lock in an outdated regulatory paradigm, strengthen the dominant mobile broadband carriers, and block the path for some of the most innovative wireless technologies that could improve mobile broadband speed and reduce its price over the next decade. In return, the revenue they will raise is a very modest 1.5 percent of the 1.6 trillion dollar package. The auctions would trade off a small short-term revenue gain for less growth and innovation over the coming decade." - Tomislav Medak

"These dynamic markets are telling us something new: The future of wireless will likely be mostly unlicensed, with an important, but residual role of auctioned, licensed services. And yet the drive to auctions simply ignores the evidence from actual markets in favor of an outmoded regulatory ideal that is the opposite of what cutting edge radio engineering and dynamic markets show." - Tomislav Medak

"The new auctions would extend Verizon and AT&T's foreclosure to the TV Bands as well, constraining not only competitors like T-Mobile, but the whole field of unlicensed strategies as well. As a revenue source, spectrum auctions are a particularly pernicious tax on wireless innovation. They pick the wrong technology for wireless infrastructure by regulatory fiat, and strengthen the... more... - Tomislav Medak

"Oakland police officer Ruten pets a kitten left behind by Occupy Oakland protestors." Yahoo impersonates the Onion: Protestors hate kittens! How like them! - Benjamin Mako Hill

GNOME users hate GNOME3 and GNOME Shell. GNOME developers feign suprise. - Benjamin Mako Hill

i like it. - marcell mars

The heavy hand of the law puts on a bike glove. - Benjamin Mako Hill

Meh. The current isn't broken because it has gone down an enormous amount. In fact, it may have broken because it was so high! BC was heavily influenced by the speculators and investors. I think that a much lower price much more accurately reflects the number of people who believe they are likely to use it. - Benjamin Mako Hill

I missed this story back in June. - Benjamin Mako Hill